I live close to the Rocky Mountains and you can't find a more beautiful backdrop in terms of scenery. I have traveled all over the world and I can say with great conviction, as a Canadian born citizen, there's no place like home! 🇨🇦
I once drove across Canada in late March, from Toronto to Vancouver, in a U-HAUL. It took 5 days and was GORGEOUS. We drove across the Trans-Canada Highway. We stopped at every "stop of interest", every hokey "attraction" and every A&W fast food joint (my friend was obsessed with their rootbeer and burgers). I would totally do it again, though I would go in May or June next time. (We got caught in a white-out blizzard between Winnipeg and Brandon, Manitoba.) The scenery constantly changes though it was a bit samey-same in parts of Saskatchewan. Do it up properly, though- drive from the Maritimes to B.C. Trip of a lifetime.
Reminds me of my stop at the covered bridge chip factory. Was driving from old Quebec to Moncton Canada and just had to stop. They do tours of the factory and after I got a mug 😂🏭
The white-out blizzards are preferable to the mosquitoes and black flies you'll get in May-June. That's why we don't mind the long winters... mass death of biting insects.
Barbecuing is huge here. We do our best to make the most of every day of good weather and barbecuing is definitely part of the plan on a nice day. Some Canadians actually barbecue all year round, winter or summer, spring or fall. 👍🏻
Except mine ( my pop) is Quebec’s soft drink Sprucebeer, which takes soda water, sugar and spruce ( Christmas tree) pine sap and mixes it together.. similar to a maple syrup invention by indigenous but also popular since 1800’s here in Quebec. Sold in all grocery stores here next to Pepsis Cokes and Root Beers and Ginger Ales
Is No one going to acknowledge the fact that Lewis Black Did Not, in fact, travel across the entire country?! If he left Ottawa and went west, he missed Half Of Canada! Hello from the Maritime Provinces!
I'm a canuck and Bill Burr is one of the funniest comedians of the last 30 years. BTW, re: being dark, Ottawa is south of Paris. So no, it's not dark in the winter until you get into the far north. If you get up to places like Canadian Forces Station Alert, 800 miles from the North Pole, then sure, you're going to have some pretty long nights in the winter. But 90% of Canadians live within 100 km of the border with the US. And re: Lewis Black, I lived in Winnipeg as a kid, with all my relatives in Nova Scotia. He's not kidding; Winnipeg to Thunder Bay, and then on to Toronto, is two solid days of trees. My wife is Danish. You can drive from the northern tip of Denmark to Germany in about 3 1/2 hours. When her friends came to Canada for our wedding, they wanted to see Niagara Falls. Ottawa to Niagara Falls is about 7 hours and you don't even come close to leaving Ontario. As they say, Europeans think 100 miles is a long trip; North Americans think 100 years is a long time.
When the 60s supermodel, Twiggy, did a tour of Canada, she was asked what she thought of Canada and replied, "Canada is a pretty nice country, but someone ought to take a tuck in it."
From where I am in BC to Edmonton, Alberta, is 11 hours. Just to go one province over. And being originally from Alberta, I can confirm it's not that much different past Winnipeg westward lol maybe less trees and more wheat and barley until you hit the mountains. oh, a big hill, enough to distort the horizon, how exotic. At least you'll never be truly lost. You can use Regina's city lights as a beacon within a 500 km radius. And thank god for the rain, because if it was sunny and hot, then it was perfect for tornados. Until you get the forests and mountains, sanctuary...until forest fire season starts.
I live just north of the 60th (whitehorse), we have a week of 24 hour daylight around the summer equinox. and if you work a 9to5 you don't see daylight for most of the winter.
You definitely need to see some Letterkenney. The most unique Canadian comedy since Trailer Park Boys. It’s full of uniquely Canadian slang, rhyme and puns.
And we bbq year round. At least my dad did. Minus 30C in February and we ate bbq at least twice a week. I never ate a steak cooked any other way until I left home.
@@kristenblack6026 Exactly. But it forces me to buy a high output BBQ so it warms up quickly during the winter. Nothing worse than a wimpy BBQ that can't heat up the cooking area when the winds are high.
@@kristenblack6026 Yep, I remember one year after an ice storm our power went out for a long while.... but we still ate warm food because of that BBQ. Had to destroy the BBQ cover to get at it though, since it was still covered in a ton of ice haha
@@LLearnersI remember that. We were the only ones in my family who had power. Guess who hosted 2 parents, 3 kids and my sister and her husband. Plus my Dad had just hot out of heart surgery. 😮 Grocery shopping was a nightmare requiring 2 carts. This was of course, before people started hoarding food and toilet paper as evidenced in the Covid pandemic. 😊
OMG WE made that drive from Ottawa to the Yukon and back in 1971 with my mother and father and 5 kids in the back (no seatbelts) aged 11, 10, 9, 6,and 11 months old. We drove our parents nuts just by asking "Are we out of Ontario yet?" and we had all the hundreds of miles yet still ahead of us!
Only in very small portions of SK. True, we don't have mountains, but we have some beautiful areas with hills & valleys, gorgeous lakes & beaches, and forests. People who only drive on Hwy 1 are missing out on the beauty of our province!
THere is great scenery between Toronto and Thunder Bay been down that road and it was picturesque. Yes, there's a lot of scenery and you run across wee towns like Wawa, but it's really peaceful and soft on the eyes.
Lewis Black must have picked a terrible month to travel on a tour bus. But he said 40 days from Ottawa to Vancouver. Only HALF the country! And the scenery in Northern Ontario, around Lake Superior is STUNNING!
well done and good work, peoples have to understand that to love Canada you have to love the great outdoors and the silent peace that surrounds it... and that's my case bravo again peace from Quebec
@@linnetoconnell457 My experience in visiting Scotland and meeting Scottish people in various places is that there is a strong bond between our two countries. Truthfully, the Scots built anglo-Canada.
@@davidreichert9392 Scots historically tended to venture as explorers and traders to far flung places before the influx of English. I joke that they'd do the dirty work and then give the "all clear" to come over.
Lewis Black’s experience in Canada was not typical. I wonder what months he visited. Summer in many Canadian provinces is very sunny. And there’s scenic areas all across the country.
Admittedly the Trans Canada highway is all flat and Wheatfields from Regina to Medicine Hat. He should have driven on the Yellowhead. But those Wheatfields, glowing gold in the sunlight, with the wind moving the wheat in waves. Pretty spectacular.
@@odilialedochowska6504 amber waves of grain are beautiful in the right season. Though idk how much it differs from the leafs of corn in the great corn belt down south.
Big fields of yellow sunflowers and blue flax are spectacular. I am a Manitoba prairie girl and think they are just as beautiful as the mountains. Notice I said just as beautiful not more beautiful so please don’t fill me in on why I can’t possibly appreciate my province as much as yours in B.C., Alberta, Ontario and Quebec. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and my eyes love Manitoba just as much. 😊. I would actually like to visit the East Coast as I have only been across the Western Provinces and a bit of Ontario.
Honestly, I’ve seen it snow every month of the year in the Yukon, watched sun set and rise within an hour (not quite the Arctic Circle), noticed the distances between towns shrink as I drove across Canada to the East Coast, and laughed with pride at Canadian comedians from CBC, SCTV, SNL and bunches of movies.
The first time I drove across Canada to Toronto from Alberta, I reached Ontario and saw all the signs to watch for moose. My mother and I looked and looked and looked. I felt totally let down. Then, on the way back, no moose again. Sigh. I saw my first moose in southern Alberta, as it happens. And grizzlies. Seen lots and lots of gophers, hawks of all types, skunks, porcupines, eagles, sandhill cranes, great blue herons and so forth and so forth. As for our country being empty, we like it that way, thanks.
BBQ is not a standard in India unless you are cooking street food. So,with that in mind most Indians that I have known never had a BBQ. In Canada it all started with the small cast iron Habachi's using charcoal briquettes,then we moved to propane BBQ's yet the charcoal is still strong in Canada . royal Oak actual oak charcoal is the best.
Not sure if you have covered them but " The Kids in the Hall" are one of the most Classic of all Canadian Sketch Comedy shows of all time. Highly recommend you check them out.
I think the UK, especially Britain is thought of as having bland food. My experience [born in 1959 to early settlers of Canada} Canadian food is Multi-cultural along with the importance of things like the Canadian Food Guide, ensuring good health when followed. As a Canadian, I eat close to the earth, Love flavour from spice or herb {from the garden} ~~~~
Jim Carrey is an absolute genius. Some of my favourite clips of him are when he's done bits on the award shows. He's so confident and hysterical. Ive always been proud that he's Canadian. I think my favourite Canadian comedian is Martin Short, he is brilliant and makes me laugh out loud.
@Mrmertsalihcan let's give mercy banking information a break? Ask me a banking executive question. canadacyoy should be a part of this over looked period peace
@@_Twink the trailer for it had trudeau done up in the image of Castro, mao or stalin intercut with quotes from Bush, Clinton etc about not tolerating dictators and talking about the middle east
the hosts at 2:23 are Regis and Kathie Lee one time they did there show in Niagara Falls Canada in the 90's Kathie said how beautiful the Canadian side was compared to the American side she got in to trouble for saying that from the Americans watching the show and they wanted an apology from her she had defend her self and explain why she said that
We used to tell people in the south that we lived in igloos in the winter and tepees in the summer til we realized they believed it. Sad fact is many of them know little about their own country and nothing of the world and aren’t interested. One response was why travel. We have the best here and that from someone who had money enough to go anywhere but hadn’t been beyond the next state. Most are better informed and to be sure we also have those who buy into stereotypes of other countries
I’m Canadian born and raised and a citizen of USA as well. I’ve travelled to or through most of both countries and love every bit of both. I have 3 states left on my bucket list. I have been to Scotland 3 times and loved your country. My husbands heritage is Scottish, the Colquhoun clan. I mainly follow you so I can enjoy your accent, my favourite !! I do think Jim Carry is my favourite comedian but Rick Merced and Talking to Americans is classic. Also Norm McDonald when he’s on the game show as Turd Ferguson. Or the one where he’s wearing a giant hat !
It's June 1st, 32 degrees Celsius and clear blue skies here in Southern Ontario. We embrace our summers as well as the spring and the fall because we have winter.
There was a documentary made in 2015 (Being Canadian) by Robert Cohen (Canadian comedy writer). He drove across Canada speaking to Canadians. He spoke to many celebrities (Shatner, Rush, Mike Myers, Howie Mandel, Trailer Park Boys etc about being Canadian) that he knows. Not sure if you are able to stream this doc locally. The conversations are very interesting.
Montrealer here, I love Jim Carey! He was talking about going across canada he was probably referring to the prairies very flat but still quite beautiful.
I don't know if you know of the American series from the 70s with Tom Selleck, called Magnum PI. It was about a private eye. On the series SCTV, one of John Candy's characters was called Magnum PEI. He's dodging and hiding in a potatoe field in the intro music. (PEI grows some of the best potatoes in Canada) I still miss John Candy and his big innocent smile!
Jim Carey was pretty dead on with American assumptions of Canada. I worked the Expo in the 80’s and a woman came to the gate in a full fur coat when it was 30 degrees Celsius. I had people tell us how different it was than they thought it would be. Some literally thought we didn’t have cars
In high school a buddy of mine's brother worked at a hotel. We lived in Mississauga, right next door to Toronto. American would arrive with skis on their roofs in the middle of July. Some Americans were shocked we had electricity and we didn't live in igloos.
Americans arriving in Australia in the '80's, after the Paul Hogan tourist ads were shown on US TV, and after his Croc Dundee movie, would arrive at Sydney and would expect to see kangaroos and koalas as soon as they got off the plane. Some thought the outback was right there as well. They would ask taxi drivers, hotel staff and people walking down the street where all these things were. Of course it blew Australian's minds.
It was touch and go with all involved knowing, ready and willing to shut down the tour if Gord couldn't go on. That last tour was for us and we loved them for that.
I'm not a huge fan of Jim Carrey's movies, although I did like his stand up. But I definitely think he represents Canada very well. For years now he's been standing up to Hollywood and trying to show people the hypocrisy and callousness and insincerity of the entire Hollywood system. He speaks truth to power because he has enough name recognition and money to do so. Good on him.
You can tell Jim needs to move back to Canada. America and the industry he dominated in there is making him totally depressed. He gets very offended when rules aren’t followed or when power gets corrupted and it eats him up inside- THAT makes him Canadian. Americans I have noticed turn a blind eye to these things and are able to ignore it. It is Jim’s canadianness that is eating him up from the inside out. I worry about his mental health and hope he chooses to live to old age. America is killing him.
We bbq all year round. If you havent bbq'ed steak for Christmas dinner, in the snow, in the dark - then you havent Canadian bbq'ed. Pull on a touque, and take out a flashlight so you can see when the meat is done.
If you want hear some canadian singers, bands, or acts. I'd suggest 4, Billy Talent is a very great punk rock band from the Toronto area, Sherman Downey is a great folk rock singer, Great Big Sea is celtic a rock band from Newfoundland, and Buddy Wasisname is basically folk and traditional Newfoundland songs, comedy, and sketches, I could add a lot more but these are great ones to start off with.
If you’re a nature lover you would enjoy the drive through Canada. I prefer it over taking the fast way through the US to get to southern Ontario from the West. But I understand it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. I live in Winnipeg and yes it does get that cold but not for that long, not for the entire winter. Our summers are crazy hot though and humid here which I find is worse than the winter, but that could be just me.
Canadians do love a BBQ and it’s common and a bit of a badge of honour to have done it during a snow storm. The winter can be really dark, this past January we only had 4 days where it was sunny. Vitamin D sells well in Canada. As for driving across Canada every person should do it once. And only once. The vastness is mind boggling and for the first couple of hours it’s stunningly beautiful. There’s a joke about being able to watch your dog run away for three days for a reason.
I was fortunate enough to see Russell Peters at a tiny comedy club, and my group of frieds was all Indo-Canadian. He zeroed in on us HARD!! He apologised to me for picking on me by osmosis! My face hurt for days. Also.... Lewis Black is brilliant.
Regis and Cathy Lee did their show in New York. NYC has pretty much the same weather as Toronto or Montreal. And Vancouver is much much less cold than New York. Americans seem to think that if they cross that imaginary line, it automatically gets freezing cold... I live in BC and its much warmer than Chicago, Boston, New York, Detroit etc.
If looking into Canadian comedy, two that you have to make sure to look into are Mike MacDonald (king of Canadian comedy), and Derek Edwards. (yes, Mike MacDonald, not Norm, although Norm's great as well)
It depends on where you are in Canada when it comes to grey weather. I live in Edmonton and we get a lot of sun all year round, it fakes you out a little bit in winter because it looks like a nice sunny day but when you check the weather network it is -30. I like it though.
Jim Carey was spot on....For some reason the people in the U.S. seem to think they need to bring their guns with them. Unfortunately when they get to the Canadian border they cannot figure out they cant bring them into our country. I have been asked how do I protect myself?
The Lewis Black bit. Yes Mert it is beautiful, but there are many hours of highway between some of the beautiful spots. From the Rockies near Calgary across the Prairies to where the forests come back east of Winnipeg is 1,300kms. Then to Ottawa through Canada is about 1,600kms and your still in the same forest! And that is only a bit less than 1/2 the width of Canada.
Norm? Oh you definitely have to watch the Barbara Walters interview on The View. Pure GOLD! That and when he was on Conan O'brien with Courtney Thorne-Smith, simply off the cuff jokes that are seven steps ahead of everyone on late night before Conan was a household name. One of those moments that was legendary water cooler chatter but very few actually watched it live, sort of lived on as a phantom memory until the internet resurfaced the clip and is now iconic status of his stardom.
Watch Brent Butt…yes that’s his real name. He had a show called Corner Gas which was soooo small town Canada. The episode with the Biggest Attraction is lol funny!
We love Bill Burr in Canada. It drives me crazy that people from other countries think Canada is always cold. In the winter it gets cold and definitely some places more than others. A lot of us who live in the prairies where is gets really cold book one or two winter vacations to tropical destinations. Something we look forward to. In the Canadian prairies it is sunny most of the year hot or cold. It's been 30 degree celcius for a while now, hot and very humid. Many, many days of plus 30 degrees in our summers. April -Aug sun up at like 5-6am and sets at 10-11pm. BBQ is popular in Canada in the summer.I have road tripped along the Transcanada highway from Vancouver to PEI. From Toronto to Winnipeg there is a lot of forest but veer off and explore areas of the Canadian Shield Lake Superior or Kenora or The Whiteshell and Lake Winnipeg with its miles and miles of soft sand beaches. If you just stay on the highway traversing from east to west without exploring you are missing out on some gorgeus parts of the country. Canada is a country to explore.
33 today with the humidex, and it isn't even summer yet! I remember being at school as a child. And tbh it only got stinko hot towards the very end of school, which was somewhere in the last week of June. No, we had no a/c nor huge amounts of heat in the winter. It was a big old school built in 1860 and it was usually always temperate in the building. Exterior walls were 2-3' thick.
I've driven across our country and back through the US many times and it's wonderful. It's long... but the changes of vegetation, weather, etc. was quite interesting and sometimes instant as we crossed the provincial border. It's long and flat in the prairies; down south they have desert and cacti which was a shock and surreal to see as well. Oh in Nova Scotia, we stopped by the sea and experiences clapping stones; naturally from the combination of the waves and the stones. Hubby and I took a few bows 😊
Come to Lethbridge Alberta, I'll show you Cacti and desert and we can visit a Buffalo Jump all in an afternoon! Not the big saguaro cactus but definitely prickly, if you know where to look there is also Rattlesnake, Black Widow and Brown Recluse (Hobo Spiders) lol
@@jedisith3864 Oh I bet! Beautiful over there... I think I've been to Lethbridge on a road trip. Loved driving through the Jasper and Banff mountains. So beautiful and sometimes surreal (fresh winter snow) too.
Flower pot stones? They are starting to collapse. Better see them in newbrunswick while you can. The largest is already gone. Nvm you said novascotia not newfoundland. Though if you want to see the coast with the longest tide change. The Flower pots are where it's at.
@@_Twink I don't know what the term you call it. There were a bunch of stones along the seashore, about the size of a softball, very smooth, seeming to all clap as the waves came in and out.
Just to let you know I live in Alberta and it can get as low as -40, but it’s not for 5 months straight, maybe two weeks straight, and at times we can actually wear shorts in the winter months.
The best American comedian on Canada in my experience is Jim Gaffigan. He’s funny and did some homework. But one of my favourite bits is Jim Jefferies doing a Canadian doctor in his Freedumb routine. That whole show is hilarious.
SCTV is a older series, but truly is legendary comedy. So many comedians launched their career's from "SCTV"! "Dr. Tongues 3D house of Horrors", "Ed Grimly", "Edith Prickley", "Bruno"," Guy Cabrillo", "Lola Harrington", "Bobby Vitman", All must know characters By Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, John Candy, Dave Thomas, Martin Short, Andrea Martin, Joe Flannery and others! SNL used to have a Canadian content corner, " The Great White North, with Bob and Doug Mackenzie". Mike Myers was one of the Mackenzie brothers, also is known as the international man of mystery, MI6 agent Austin Powers! That is all I can think of right now. But really proud and glad you're enjoying our off the Wall, self deprecating Canadian Humour! Oh and Yes, Yes, yes, We LOVE BBQ too! So much some folks set it up, so they can cook on the BBQ all winter! Looking forward to hearing how you liked these suggestions! 😂❤🎉🍻
and whats your problem with that? Lots of Americans live up here all summer every year and have homes here. Ever been to Quebec Canada, Jasper Alberta, Banff Alberta, Thousands of Americans every year travel up here. So maybe the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing all the time. We Canadians love having you- all visit here. My name is cliff, drop over sometime.
@@paulsayer8248 I was born in Illinois and spent two years there as a toddler. The rest of my 58 years of life was spent in North Dakota and Minnesota. I'm not the dilettante you think I may be. Canada has changed. Instead of Canada exporting William Shatner and Norm Macdonald. We now get Samantha Bee and Jason Jones.
If I may suggest, outside of your requested area of input, a film I think you might find fascinating. As a Canadian, it isn't often I seek out Scottish media specifically, but I did in this case. The film is called, 'The Hector: From Scotland to Nova Scotia' (2017). The documentary details the arrival of the first 200 Scottish settlers onto what was then the undeveloped shores of the land they called New Scotland. Fascinating story, and a really well done documentary as well. BBC Scotland was the primary producer, but from my understanding, other Scottish media sources were involved as well. Keep up the wonderful work! Cheers from Windsor, Ontario, Canada, AKA, the furthest southern city in the country (we're on the same latitude as northern California.) It's also the only place in Canada where you look north to see the USA (specifically, the city of Detroit, Michigan.)
(A lot of) Canadians take pride in BBQing all year through. Minus 30 in February and want a steak? Shovel a path to the grill, get it hot, boots, toque, mitts and a spatula and this is going to happen! Should I tinfoil some onions and mushrooms too? Ha!
How do I feel about Jim Carey? Hmm. I liked him a lot when he was a young comedian. I only like half of his movies though and find him a little too much sometimes. When he's good, he's great. I'm from Nova Scotia so used to grey, overcast and rainy weather. I've heard people compare Nova Scotia to the horror movie Silent Hill due to the fog. That being said, I actually love the rain and fog. I find something very peaceful and relaxing about it that I find it makes me feel centered. When it is sunny, you have no excuse not to get stuff done. Maybe it's my Scottish ancestry heh.
Didn't love the Lewis Black bit, tbh. I and many Canadians have driven across Canada, and while the prairies can get repetitive, the stretch between Calgary and Vancouver has got to be one of the most beautiful drives on Earth. Also, Calgary has more sunny days per year than Los Angeles, so I'm not sure where he was going with the grey sky thing. Maybe he was on the West Coast during winter? Still beautiful, though.
I agree also! This guy obviously knows very little about Canada. The really cold temperatures (-30 to -50) only happens occasionally, otherwise our winters can be quite mild and we have a lot of sunny days year round. Canada is a beautiful country! And barbecue year round is very common!
Our favourite pastime is effing with our 'Merican neighbours' utter lack of knowledge of not only us but the rest of the world. All in good fun, though. "Talking To Americans" is based on this.😊
There are labour laws in Canada regulating such things as, when workers are sent out to work in -30F (it's probably been converted to centigrade by now) they have to go out in pairs so they can monitor each other's faces for frostbite. M dad grew up on the prairies and told us that the horses had to be kept in the barn at -30F or their lungs would freeze.
@@_Twink Although it's been forty or fifty years since Canada went metric, I have never adapted. Prices in grocery stores still give price in both metric and imperial, and the government weather channel gives temperatures in both Celsius and Fahrenheit. My dad definitely meant Fahrenheit.
@@pirbird14 I've never noticed things in imperial before. I even do weight and height metric. Maybe it's a prairies thing. Or a B.C / French Canada thing.
Canadians are big Bill Burr fans, how could we not?
I'm Canadian and I can not like Burr.
@@Lord.Kiltridge It could be a cultural thing.
@@Lord.Kiltridge Same here. His accent is annoying.
I think he is somewhat polarizing. He tends to say radical/shocking stuff. Some people find to funny, some people find it offensive.
Saw him in Regina.
I live close to the Rocky Mountains and you can't find a more beautiful backdrop in terms of scenery. I have traveled all over the world and I can say with great conviction, as a Canadian born citizen, there's no place like home! 🇨🇦
Tumbler Ridge is calling... ring ring, ring ring... ;)
Amen ❤
families from the crows nest, those mountains will forever be home!
I once drove across Canada in late March, from Toronto to Vancouver, in a U-HAUL.
It took 5 days and was GORGEOUS. We drove across the Trans-Canada Highway. We stopped at every "stop of interest", every hokey "attraction" and every A&W fast food joint (my friend was obsessed with their rootbeer and burgers).
I would totally do it again, though I would go in May or June next time. (We got caught in a white-out blizzard between Winnipeg and Brandon, Manitoba.)
The scenery constantly changes though it was a bit samey-same in parts of Saskatchewan.
Do it up properly, though- drive from the Maritimes to B.C.
Trip of a lifetime.
Reminds me of my stop at the covered bridge chip factory. Was driving from old Quebec to Moncton Canada and just had to stop. They do tours of the factory and after I got a mug 😂🏭
I've done that many times and there's always something interesting to see. I love stopping in the smaller towns.
@@_Twink Chips?? I'm IN!😂
The white-out blizzards are preferable to the mosquitoes and black flies you'll get in May-June. That's why we don't mind the long winters... mass death of biting insects.
Yeah, Winnipeg to Brandon is always the worst! Lived in Winnipeg but when to university in Brandon!
Eugene Levi is a legend. His latest show is Schitt's Creek and it is definitely Canada style comedy.
Sorry but Schitts Creek series ended 3 years ago, unfortunately . Genius comedy..very Toronto.. mid Canada
Jim Carrey was channeling Chief Dan George. His role in the Outlaw Josey Wales was epic.
Barbecuing is huge here. We do our best to make the most of every day of good weather and barbecuing is definitely part of the plan on a nice day. Some Canadians actually barbecue all year round, winter or summer, spring or fall. 👍🏻
We bbq all year. Some amazingly oddball concoctions have transpired. Lol 😊
Spring, summer, and sometimes fall in my family. Never had a winter BBQ yet, but have had one on a cloudy 15c day.
My dad once barbecued (Summer) in hail. And he's Calgarian by way of Montreal and Austria.
"Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat!" "Aw, that trick never works!" LOL I love Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons growing up
I almost spewed Gingerale with that one.
ME TOO!!!!😂❤❤❤❤❤
Once you see a tree 🌲 you’ve seen them all.. just empty expanse of forest or rock 🥳😂🇨🇦😘❤️🥰 driving across Canada. Just watch out for wildlufe
Except mine ( my pop) is Quebec’s soft drink Sprucebeer, which takes soda water, sugar and spruce ( Christmas tree) pine sap and mixes it together.. similar to a maple syrup invention by indigenous but also popular since 1800’s here in Quebec. Sold in all grocery stores here next to Pepsis Cokes and Root Beers and Ginger Ales
@@SuperTruetunes I love Spruce beer and also birch beer. It's quite unique.
Is No one going to acknowledge the fact that Lewis Black Did Not, in fact, travel across the entire country?! If he left Ottawa and went west, he missed Half Of Canada! Hello from the Maritime Provinces!
He's typical of a lot of people, sadly. Celebrities, bands, etc believe Canada stops at Montreal when heading west from BC.
And he's just not funny.
The white Stripes did a show every province and territory but only played one note in NFLD. Technically did it but cmon
@@mariposa9506He pretty funny, dude.
Come on now, we all know, although many fail to admit, that Canada starts at the Manitoba / Ontario border and goes west from there.
Canadian here: one of my favourite comedians is from Scotland! Danny Bhoy, a comedic legend!! 🇨🇦🏴 👋🏻
As an Irish Canadian, one of my all time favourite stand up lines is, "diddly dee, potatoes!"
I agree!
Oh man thats a name i havent heard in a long time, My favorite is his visitors guide to Scotland.
I'm a canuck and Bill Burr is one of the funniest comedians of the last 30 years. BTW, re: being dark, Ottawa is south of Paris. So no, it's not dark in the winter until you get into the far north. If you get up to places like Canadian Forces Station Alert, 800 miles from the North Pole, then sure, you're going to have some pretty long nights in the winter. But 90% of Canadians live within 100 km of the border with the US. And re: Lewis Black, I lived in Winnipeg as a kid, with all my relatives in Nova Scotia. He's not kidding; Winnipeg to Thunder Bay, and then on to Toronto, is two solid days of trees. My wife is Danish. You can drive from the northern tip of Denmark to Germany in about 3 1/2 hours. When her friends came to Canada for our wedding, they wanted to see Niagara Falls. Ottawa to Niagara Falls is about 7 hours and you don't even come close to leaving Ontario. As they say, Europeans think 100 miles is a long trip; North Americans think 100 years is a long time.
When the 60s supermodel, Twiggy, did a tour of Canada, she was asked what she thought of Canada and replied, "Canada is a pretty nice country, but someone ought to take a tuck in it."
From where I am in BC to Edmonton, Alberta, is 11 hours. Just to go one province over. And being originally from Alberta, I can confirm it's not that much different past Winnipeg westward lol maybe less trees and more wheat and barley until you hit the mountains. oh, a big hill, enough to distort the horizon, how exotic. At least you'll never be truly lost. You can use Regina's city lights as a beacon within a 500 km radius. And thank god for the rain, because if it was sunny and hot, then it was perfect for tornados. Until you get the forests and mountains, sanctuary...until forest fire season starts.
@@Aughtel And the 50 foot shadow on the horizon is a prairie gopher.
Good one.. Fun fact, Canada's most southern point is less than 200 miles north of the most northern point in California.
I live just north of the 60th (whitehorse), we have a week of 24 hour daylight around the summer equinox. and if you work a 9to5 you don't see daylight for most of the winter.
You definitely need to see some Letterkenney. The most unique Canadian comedy since Trailer Park Boys. It’s full of uniquely Canadian slang, rhyme and puns.
As an American I find letterKenny , f'n hilarious. Everyone should see it.
@@leroyjenkinz9791 100% altho if you're from there it's also surreal
Kenny Vs Spenny tho 😂
The Red Green Show!
Give your balls a tug.😂
Russell is a great comedian, one of his funniest was gun control
New funniest most interesting Canadian now-Ryan Reynolds
Canada has large cottage/camping/outdoor culture. That includes BBQs. And people BBQ in their backyards as well.
And we bbq year round. At least my dad did. Minus 30C in February and we ate bbq at least twice a week. I never ate a steak cooked any other way until I left home.
@@kristenblack6026 Exactly. But it forces me to buy a high output BBQ so it warms up quickly during the winter. Nothing worse than a wimpy BBQ that can't heat up the cooking area when the winds are high.
One year we had a power outage Christmas Day.
No problem, just BBQ’d the turkey.
@@kristenblack6026 Yep, I remember one year after an ice storm our power went out for a long while.... but we still ate warm food because of that BBQ. Had to destroy the BBQ cover to get at it though, since it was still covered in a ton of ice haha
@@LLearnersI remember that. We were the only ones in my family who had power. Guess who hosted 2 parents, 3 kids and my sister and her husband. Plus my Dad had just hot out of heart surgery. 😮 Grocery shopping was a nightmare requiring 2 carts.
This was of course, before people started hoarding food and toilet paper as evidenced in the Covid pandemic. 😊
OMG WE made that drive from Ottawa to the Yukon and back in 1971 with my mother and father and 5 kids in the back (no seatbelts) aged 11, 10, 9, 6,and 11 months old. We drove our parents nuts just by asking "Are we out of Ontario yet?" and we had all the hundreds of miles yet still ahead of us!
THOUSANDS of MILES. !🍁
@@jeffevers3732 Yes, you are correct! Best trip ever! so many adventures and great memories of visiting family along the way
@@linnetoconnell457 Such a Beautiful Country. Truly Massive. " Are we out of Ontario yet ?" :)
It would be a much shorter drive if you didn't have to drive to Thunder Bay to get to the rest of Canada. I fly now.
@@CayleeG It is a Long Trail to Cross Canada. Outstanding from the air also. :)
If you want a couple of legends of Canadian comedy than look at Wayne and Shuster.
once you cross the Canadian shield , you are in the prairies and you can watch your dog run away for 3 days until you reach Alberta
Only in very small portions of SK. True, we don't have mountains, but we have some beautiful areas with hills & valleys, gorgeous lakes & beaches, and forests. People who only drive on Hwy 1 are missing out on the beauty of our province!
Canada and Scotland are much alike. Both are wonderful.
THere is great scenery between Toronto and Thunder Bay been down that road and it was picturesque. Yes, there's a lot of scenery and you run across wee towns like Wawa, but it's really peaceful and soft on the eyes.
Lewis Black must have picked a terrible month to travel on a tour bus. But he said 40 days from Ottawa to Vancouver. Only HALF the country!
And the scenery in Northern Ontario, around Lake Superior is STUNNING!
well done and good work, peoples have to understand that to love Canada you have to love the great outdoors and the silent peace that surrounds it... and that's my case bravo again peace from Quebec
There is nothing more gorgeous than a sunny blue sky in Winnipeg in the winter.
clear blue skies on the West Coast... gorgeous .
Trust me, as a Scot, you'll find many things about Canada to be very familiar should you ever visit here. Both in good and bad ways,
I concur, lol .
I am a Canadian and I spent a few weeks in Scotland in 1992 I've longed to go back ever since.
@@linnetoconnell457 My experience in visiting Scotland and meeting Scottish people in various places is that there is a strong bond between our two countries. Truthfully, the Scots built anglo-Canada.
@@davidreichert9392 Scots historically tended to venture as explorers and traders to far flung places before the influx of English. I joke that they'd do the dirty work and then give the "all clear" to come over.
Well yeah duh.... you're both apart of the Commonwealth.
Lewis Black’s experience in Canada was not typical. I wonder what months he visited. Summer in many Canadian provinces is very sunny. And there’s scenic areas all across the country.
Admittedly the Trans Canada highway is all flat and Wheatfields from Regina to Medicine Hat. He should have driven on the Yellowhead. But those Wheatfields, glowing gold in the sunlight, with the wind moving the wheat in waves. Pretty spectacular.
@@odilialedochowska6504 amber waves of grain are beautiful in the right season. Though idk how much it differs from the leafs of corn in the great corn belt down south.
@@_Twink I've never seen big cornfields, but I can imagine it would be worth seeing.🙂
Big fields of yellow sunflowers and blue flax are spectacular. I am a Manitoba prairie girl and think they are just as beautiful as the mountains. Notice I said just as beautiful not more beautiful so please don’t fill me in on why I can’t possibly appreciate my province as much as yours in B.C., Alberta, Ontario and Quebec. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and my eyes love Manitoba just as much. 😊. I would actually like to visit the East Coast as I have only been across the Western Provinces and a bit of Ontario.
Honestly, I’ve seen it snow every month of the year in the Yukon, watched sun set and rise within an hour (not quite the Arctic Circle), noticed the distances between towns shrink as I drove across Canada to the East Coast, and laughed with pride at Canadian comedians from CBC, SCTV, SNL and bunches of movies.
The first time I drove across Canada to Toronto from Alberta, I reached Ontario and saw all the signs to watch for moose. My mother and I looked and looked and looked. I felt totally let down. Then, on the way back, no moose again. Sigh. I saw my first moose in southern Alberta, as it happens. And grizzlies. Seen lots and lots of gophers, hawks of all types, skunks, porcupines, eagles, sandhill cranes, great blue herons and so forth and so forth. As for our country being empty, we like it that way, thanks.
BBQ is not a standard in India unless you are cooking street food. So,with that in mind most Indians that I have known never had a BBQ. In Canada it all started with the small cast iron Habachi's using charcoal briquettes,then we moved to propane BBQ's yet the charcoal is still strong in Canada . royal Oak actual oak charcoal is the best.
Charcoal tastes better but it's soo much extra work. Few I know bother.
We use a mix of charcoal to start with mapple wood chunks, best taste 😋
One comic sketch that always cracks me up is Canada vs. U.S. Drinking Game by Sean Collins. You've got to watch it and be prepared to laugh hard.
Thanks for the recommendation..I somehow had missed this...great story teller.
@@sheilamartin1577 You're welcome
Hoss, Tank and Bear
Rocky and Bullwinkle are beloved cartoon characters.
Love all our comedians❤ I'm quite sure we Canadians take all the jokes about us in stride and yes very proud of our comedians!
Not sure if you have covered them but " The Kids in the Hall" are one of the most Classic of all Canadian Sketch Comedy shows of all time. Highly recommend you check them out.
My dad always said, the best part of have a BBQ in the winter is there's not a fly for 1000 miles and your beer will never go warm.
def enjoy this as a canadian with close scottish connections and ancestry living in nova scotia canada new scotland
I think the UK, especially Britain is thought of as having bland food. My experience [born in 1959 to early settlers of Canada} Canadian food is Multi-cultural along with the importance of things like the Canadian Food Guide, ensuring good health when followed. As a Canadian, I eat close to the earth, Love flavour from spice or herb {from the garden} ~~~~
Jim Carrey is an absolute genius. Some of my favourite clips of him are when he's done bits on the award shows. He's so confident and hysterical. Ive always been proud that he's Canadian. I think my favourite Canadian comedian is Martin Short, he is brilliant and makes me laugh out loud.
Pet detective movies are gold
@Mrmertsalihcan let's give mercy banking information a break? Ask me a banking executive question. canadacyoy should be a part of this over looked period peace
The first Norm MacDonald clip was him on Live with Regis and Kathylee on usa tv interviewing him.
Fun fact recently fox had to cancel a documentary about invading canada to free it from communism because they fired the host.
Actually? They still mad about us cracking down on the russian backed trucker protest?
@@_Twink the trailer for it had trudeau done up in the image of Castro, mao or stalin intercut with quotes from Bush, Clinton etc about not tolerating dictators and talking about the middle east
@@_Twink Russian backed lol. Do you know any truck drivers? O ya lots of red neck commies, flying the Rebel flag with hammer and sickle roflmao.
@@_Twink more than likely rofl they don't actually know what the word communism means anymore, anything that's not american is now communism.
There is nothing factual about your bullshit.
Check out Mark Critch, and Mary Walsh, from the east coast of Canada. A show called This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Many Canadian comedians.
the hosts at 2:23 are Regis and Kathie Lee one time they did there show in Niagara Falls Canada in the 90's Kathie said how beautiful the Canadian side was compared to the American side she got in to trouble for saying that from the Americans watching the show and they wanted an apology from her she had defend her self and explain why she said that
CARREY makes Canadians laugh.. 👍 He was quoting some CBC or old "Canadian film board"films we all watched in grade school.. lol
We used to tell people in the south that we lived in igloos in the winter and tepees in the summer til we realized they believed it. Sad fact is many of them know little about their own country and nothing of the world and aren’t interested. One response was why travel. We have the best here and that from someone who had money enough to go anywhere but hadn’t been beyond the next state. Most are better informed and to be sure we also have those who buy into stereotypes of other countries
I'm also a Canuck and Canada is an amazing drive from Coast to gorgeous Coast and 85% sunshine throughout the journey.
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jim's eskimo impersonation was funny AF
I’m Canadian born and raised and a citizen of USA as well. I’ve travelled to or through most of both countries and love every bit of both. I have 3 states left on my bucket list. I have been to Scotland 3 times and loved your country. My husbands heritage is Scottish, the Colquhoun clan. I mainly follow you so I can enjoy your accent, my favourite !! I do think Jim Carry is my favourite comedian but Rick Merced and Talking to Americans is classic. Also Norm McDonald when he’s on the game show as Turd Ferguson. Or the one where he’s wearing a giant hat !
Norm's best bit is the agonizing 12 minute long story about the moth. Only Norm could do that joke.
@@tyson31415 With Norm, the fun is in the delivery - not the punchline!
It's June 1st, 32 degrees Celsius and clear blue skies here in Southern Ontario. We embrace our summers as well as the spring and the fall because we have winter.
Fun fact: 90% of Canadians live farther south than Scotland.
There was a documentary made in 2015 (Being Canadian) by Robert Cohen (Canadian comedy writer). He drove across Canada speaking to Canadians. He spoke to many celebrities (Shatner, Rush, Mike Myers, Howie Mandel, Trailer Park Boys etc about being Canadian) that he knows. Not sure if you are able to stream this doc locally. The conversations are very interesting.
Thanks! 🇨🇦 I didn’t know that!
It's on prime
@@suzannebilski6914 It's also on Apple and is free on Gem.
@@suzannebilski6914 Also on apple and free on gem.
@@suzannebilski6914 also on gem (free).
I think some of the best new "Canadian humour" is Letterkenney.
Jim Gaffigan, an American comedian, has some really funny bits about Canada.
Montrealer here, I love Jim Carey! He was talking about going across canada he was probably referring to the prairies very flat but still quite beautiful.
I don't know if you know of the American series from the 70s with Tom Selleck, called Magnum PI. It was about a private eye. On the series SCTV, one of John Candy's characters was called Magnum PEI. He's dodging and hiding in a potatoe field in the intro music. (PEI grows some of the best potatoes in Canada) I still miss John Candy and his big innocent smile!
That last guy was bringing a cloud with him. It’s bright and sunny for the rest of us. That’s the USA baby.
Jim Carey was pretty dead on with American assumptions of Canada. I worked the Expo in the 80’s and a woman came to the gate in a full fur coat when it was 30 degrees Celsius. I had people tell us how different it was than they thought it would be. Some literally thought we didn’t have cars
In high school a buddy of mine's brother worked at a hotel. We lived in Mississauga, right next door to Toronto. American would arrive with skis on their roofs in the middle of July. Some Americans were shocked we had electricity and we didn't live in igloos.
Americans arriving in Australia in the '80's, after the Paul Hogan tourist ads were shown on US TV, and after his Croc Dundee movie, would arrive at Sydney and would expect to see kangaroos and koalas as soon as they got off the plane. Some thought the outback was right there as well. They would ask taxi drivers, hotel staff and people walking down the street where all these things were. Of course it blew Australian's minds.
It was touch and go with all involved knowing, ready and willing to shut down the tour if Gord couldn't go on. That last tour was for us and we loved them for that.
I'm not a huge fan of Jim Carrey's movies, although I did like his stand up. But I definitely think he represents Canada very well. For years now he's been standing up to Hollywood and trying to show people the hypocrisy and callousness and insincerity of the entire Hollywood system. He speaks truth to power because he has enough name recognition and money to do so. Good on him.
Totally agree! Many Canadians are very proud of Jim Carrey! Many famous comedians come from Canada!
You can tell Jim needs to move back to Canada. America and the industry he dominated in there is making him totally depressed. He gets very offended when rules aren’t followed or when power gets corrupted and it eats him up inside- THAT makes him Canadian. Americans I have noticed turn a blind eye to these things and are able to ignore it. It is Jim’s canadianness that is eating him up from the inside out. I worry about his mental health and hope he chooses to live to old age. America is killing him.
@@allytrudie864 I don't actually know Jim Carrey. We don't all know each other.
Jim Carey is crazy in the best way possible
Right off the bat @0:01 I sure miss that "grrreat" from Scotland so much I do it for myself sometimes.
We bbq all year round. If you havent bbq'ed steak for Christmas dinner, in the snow, in the dark - then you havent Canadian bbq'ed. Pull on a touque, and take out a flashlight so you can see when the meat is done.
If you want hear some canadian singers, bands, or acts. I'd suggest 4, Billy Talent is a very great punk rock band from the Toronto area, Sherman Downey is a great folk rock singer, Great Big Sea is celtic a rock band from Newfoundland, and Buddy Wasisname is basically folk and traditional Newfoundland songs, comedy, and sketches, I could add a lot more but these are great ones to start off with.
If you’re a nature lover you would enjoy the drive through Canada. I prefer it over taking the fast way through the US to get to southern Ontario from the West. But I understand it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. I live in Winnipeg and yes it does get that cold but not for that long, not for the entire winter. Our summers are crazy hot though and humid here which I find is worse than the winter, but that could be just me.
for current relevant comedians, Bill Burr is the G.O.AI.T greeting from the west coast of Canada
Thunder Bay is awesome if you love fishing, camping, hiking, hunting, skiing etc.
Canadians do love a BBQ and it’s common and a bit of a badge of honour to have done it during a snow storm. The winter can be really dark, this past January we only had 4 days where it was sunny. Vitamin D sells well in Canada. As for driving across Canada every person should do it once. And only once. The vastness is mind boggling and for the first couple of hours it’s stunningly beautiful. There’s a joke about being able to watch your dog run away for three days for a reason.
and only once - LOL or at least skip the prairies
I was fortunate enough to see Russell Peters at a tiny comedy club, and my group of frieds was all Indo-Canadian. He zeroed in on us HARD!!
He apologised to me for picking on me by osmosis! My face hurt for days.
Also.... Lewis Black is brilliant.
Regis and Cathy Lee did their show in New York. NYC has pretty much the same weather as Toronto or Montreal. And Vancouver is much much less cold than New York. Americans seem to think that if they cross that imaginary line, it automatically gets freezing cold... I live in BC and its much warmer than Chicago, Boston, New York, Detroit etc.
90% of canadians live 100km from the border. 0.522% of canada live in the arctic circle.
There is a desert in BC, and a rainforest.
Mike Meyers and his movie 'So I married An Axe Murderer " !!
If looking into Canadian comedy, two that you have to make sure to look into are Mike MacDonald (king of Canadian comedy), and Derek Edwards. (yes, Mike MacDonald, not Norm, although Norm's great as well)
RIP Mike! I used to love his stories about his father. Truly a legend, I grew up on that guy.
Mike was awesome. I went to Brookfield HS with him. Great parties at his house. Lol 😊
Just love the way you have presented this. Thank you, so well done
It depends on where you are in Canada when it comes to grey weather. I live in Edmonton and we get a lot of sun all year round, it fakes you out a little bit in winter because it looks like a nice sunny day but when you check the weather network it is -30. I like it though.
Montreal gets cold in winter. So cold the largest underground city in the world is under Montreal.
Jeremy Hotz and Derek Edwards are a couple of my favourites.
Jim Carey was spot on....For some reason the people in the U.S. seem to think they need to bring their guns with them. Unfortunately when they get to the Canadian border they cannot figure out they cant bring them into our country. I have been asked how do I protect myself?
The Lewis Black bit. Yes Mert it is beautiful, but there are many hours of highway between some of the beautiful spots. From the Rockies near Calgary across the Prairies to where the forests come back east of Winnipeg is 1,300kms. Then to Ottawa through Canada is about 1,600kms and your still in the same forest! And that is only a bit less than 1/2 the width of Canada.
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Norm? Oh you definitely have to watch the Barbara Walters interview on The View. Pure GOLD! That and when he was on Conan O'brien with Courtney Thorne-Smith, simply off the cuff jokes that are seven steps ahead of everyone on late night before Conan was a household name. One of those moments that was legendary water cooler chatter but very few actually watched it live, sort of lived on as a phantom memory until the internet resurfaced the clip and is now iconic status of his stardom.
Lewis Black's part was spot on except for the weather part. We have alot of sun, all year.
Watch Brent Butt…yes that’s his real name. He had a show called Corner Gas which was soooo small town Canada. The episode with the Biggest Attraction is lol funny!
Russell Peter's is a genius too
We love Bill Burr in Canada. It drives me crazy that people from other countries think Canada is always cold. In the winter it gets cold and definitely some places more than others. A lot of us who live in the prairies where is gets really cold book one or two winter vacations to tropical destinations. Something we look forward to. In the Canadian prairies it is sunny most of the year hot or cold. It's been 30 degree celcius for a while now, hot and very humid. Many, many days of plus 30 degrees in our summers. April -Aug sun up at like 5-6am and sets at 10-11pm. BBQ is popular in Canada in the summer.I have road tripped along the Transcanada highway from Vancouver to PEI. From Toronto to Winnipeg there is a lot of forest but veer off and explore areas of the Canadian Shield Lake Superior or Kenora or The Whiteshell and Lake Winnipeg with its miles and miles of soft sand beaches. If you just stay on the highway traversing from east to west without exploring you are missing out on some gorgeus parts of the country. Canada is a country to explore.
33 today with the humidex, and it isn't even summer yet!
I remember being at school as a child. And tbh it only got stinko hot towards the very end of school, which was somewhere in the last week of June. No, we had no a/c nor huge amounts of heat in the winter. It was a big old school built in 1860 and it was usually always temperate in the building. Exterior walls were 2-3' thick.
You are fantastic! Love listening to your views on my country CANADA 🇨🇦
I've driven across our country and back through the US many times and it's wonderful. It's long... but the changes of vegetation, weather, etc. was quite interesting and sometimes instant as we crossed the provincial border. It's long and flat in the prairies; down south they have desert and cacti which was a shock and surreal to see as well. Oh in Nova Scotia, we stopped by the sea and experiences clapping stones; naturally from the combination of the waves and the stones. Hubby and I took a few bows 😊
Come to Lethbridge Alberta, I'll show you Cacti and desert and we can visit a Buffalo Jump all in an afternoon!
Not the big saguaro cactus but definitely prickly, if you know where to look there is also Rattlesnake, Black Widow and Brown Recluse (Hobo Spiders) lol
@@jedisith3864 Oh I bet! Beautiful over there... I think I've been to Lethbridge on a road trip. Loved driving through the Jasper and Banff mountains. So beautiful and sometimes surreal (fresh winter snow) too.
Flower pot stones? They are starting to collapse. Better see them in newbrunswick while you can. The largest is already gone.
Nvm you said novascotia not newfoundland. Though if you want to see the coast with the longest tide change. The Flower pots are where it's at.
@@_Twink I don't know what the term you call it. There were a bunch of stones along the seashore, about the size of a softball, very smooth, seeming to all clap as the waves came in and out.
@@aannddrryyaa no your right. Somehow I thought New Brunswick when clearly you wrote Novascotia.
Just to let you know I live in Alberta and it can get as low as -40, but it’s not for 5 months straight, maybe two weeks straight, and at times we can actually wear shorts in the winter months.
Gotta see Nova Scotia! If you skip the Atlantic provinces, you’re missing the best part of the country😍💙🤍
I just saw someone in the comments section mention Howie Mandel. He is one of my favourite comedians. 🇨🇦
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@@Mertsalihcan. Have you ever seen Howie Mandel? Like other famous Canadians, he is based in the U.S.
The best American comedian on Canada in my experience is Jim Gaffigan. He’s funny and did some homework.
But one of my favourite bits is Jim Jefferies doing a Canadian doctor in his Freedumb routine. That whole show is hilarious.
Rocky n Bullwinkle lol totally forgot about that show. BBQ in winter, of course we do, you layer up (clothes) make a path to the BBQ.
We love our barbecue. Also, Russel Peters father speaks perfect English, and learning that was like finding out that the stripper pole spins.
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Canada BBQs alot. Weather doesn't stop a Canadian from a good BBQ
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Ah Rocky and Bullwinkle. Aka squirrel and moose for those who have never seen the cartoon.🇨🇦❤️
You've got to say that like Natasha - ' Moooose ent Squvvaarl'🤣
Thank for your videos it’s great to see my country thru your eyes, even if I am only a French Canadian lol!
We Bar-B-Que even in the cold of winter.
SCTV is a older series, but truly is legendary comedy.
So many comedians launched their career's from "SCTV"!
"Dr. Tongues 3D house of Horrors",
"Ed Grimly",
"Edith Prickley",
"Bruno"," Guy Cabrillo",
"Lola Harrington", "Bobby Vitman",
All must know characters By
Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, John Candy, Dave Thomas, Martin Short, Andrea Martin, Joe Flannery and others!
SNL used to have a Canadian content corner, " The Great White North, with Bob and Doug Mackenzie".
Mike Myers was one of the Mackenzie brothers, also is known as the international man of mystery, MI6 agent Austin Powers!
That is all I can think of right now.
But really proud and glad you're enjoying our off the Wall, self deprecating Canadian Humour!
Oh and Yes, Yes, yes, We LOVE BBQ too!
So much some folks set it up, so they can cook on the BBQ all winter!
Looking forward to hearing how you liked these suggestions!
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Hoser, eh😊
The problem with Canadian comedians is that they come to the USA and never leave.
Canadians always come back to Canada
and whats your problem with that? Lots of Americans live up here all summer every year and have homes here. Ever been to Quebec Canada, Jasper Alberta, Banff Alberta, Thousands of Americans every year travel up here. So maybe the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing all the time. We Canadians love having you- all visit here. My name is cliff, drop over sometime.
you're welcome
@@paulsayer8248 I was born in Illinois and spent two years there as a toddler. The rest of my 58 years of life was spent in North Dakota and Minnesota. I'm not the dilettante you think I may be.
Canada has changed. Instead of Canada exporting William Shatner and Norm Macdonald. We now get Samantha Bee and Jason Jones.
@@paulsayer8248 dude, this may not go well. Never feed the bears!
If I may suggest, outside of your requested area of input, a film I think you might find fascinating. As a Canadian, it isn't often I seek out Scottish media specifically, but I did in this case. The film is called, 'The Hector: From Scotland to Nova Scotia' (2017). The documentary details the arrival of the first 200 Scottish settlers onto what was then the undeveloped shores of the land they called New Scotland. Fascinating story, and a really well done documentary as well. BBC Scotland was the primary producer, but from my understanding, other Scottish media sources were involved as well.
Keep up the wonderful work! Cheers from Windsor, Ontario, Canada, AKA, the furthest southern city in the country (we're on the same latitude as northern California.) It's also the only place in Canada where you look north to see the USA (specifically, the city of Detroit, Michigan.)
(A lot of) Canadians take pride in BBQing all year through. Minus 30 in February and want a steak? Shovel a path to the grill, get it hot, boots, toque, mitts and a spatula and this is going to happen! Should I tinfoil some onions and mushrooms too?
Ha!
Facts.
PROUD CANADIAN here!!!!! 🇨🇦✌🏻
Cheers 🍻
I was born in Winnipeg. Is it that cold? Well yes, but it's a dry cold.
OMG Thank you for the reminder of Russell Peters! So funny!
I live in Windsor, Ontario. More Americans live North of here than Canadians. lol
Yes... and it's around the same latitude at Northern California...
All of Scotland is farther north than Windsor and you can throw in England, Ireland and Wales.
FYI. His reference to the kiss and squirrel was regarding the Rocky and Bul,Winkle show in Canada 🍁
If you want an accurate depiction of slightly exaggerated Canadian life in small towns, I'd suggest you watch LetterKenny.
Or Little Mosque on the Prarie, or Corner Gas.
How do I feel about Jim Carey? Hmm. I liked him a lot when he was a young comedian. I only like half of his movies though and find him a little too much sometimes. When he's good, he's great.
I'm from Nova Scotia so used to grey, overcast and rainy weather. I've heard people compare Nova Scotia to the horror movie Silent Hill due to the fog. That being said, I actually love the rain and fog. I find something very peaceful and relaxing about it that I find it makes me feel centered. When it is sunny, you have no excuse not to get stuff done. Maybe it's my Scottish ancestry heh.
Enjoyed your sharing. Thanks. Wish you good health, and a peaceful heart, whether foggy or Sunny. ❤
Didn't love the Lewis Black bit, tbh. I and many Canadians have driven across Canada, and while the prairies can get repetitive, the stretch between Calgary and Vancouver has got to be one of the most beautiful drives on Earth. Also, Calgary has more sunny days per year than Los Angeles, so I'm not sure where he was going with the grey sky thing. Maybe he was on the West Coast during winter? Still beautiful, though.
I agree. Every province has something worthwhile seeing. Its still a bucket list item for me to drive across our beautiful country.
I agree also! This guy obviously knows very little about Canada. The really cold temperatures (-30 to -50) only happens occasionally, otherwise our winters can be quite mild and we have a lot of sunny days year round. Canada is a beautiful country! And barbecue year round is very common!
Our favourite pastime is effing with our 'Merican neighbours' utter lack of knowledge of not only us but the rest of the world.
All in good fun, though.
"Talking To Americans" is based on this.😊
There are labour laws in Canada regulating such things as, when workers are sent out to work in -30F (it's probably been converted to centigrade by now) they have to go out in pairs so they can monitor each other's faces for frostbite. M dad grew up on the prairies and told us that the horses had to be kept in the barn at -30F or their lungs would freeze.
That would be almost -40 Celsius. Are you sure he didn't mean -30 Celsius?
@@_Twink Although it's been forty or fifty years since Canada went metric, I have never adapted. Prices in grocery stores still give price in both metric and imperial, and the government weather channel gives temperatures in both Celsius and Fahrenheit. My dad definitely meant Fahrenheit.
@@pirbird14 I've never noticed things in imperial before. I even do weight and height metric. Maybe it's a prairies thing. Or a B.C / French Canada thing.